I'd be grateful if you could ask about a simple way of recording
courses which have a Sem A OR Sem B start date. Currently we
would have to set up two courses on the database for each one
with a flexible start date, and where there are hundreds of courses,
this turns into an enormous job. The term dates for these courses
are usually the only difference, and students who begin in the
second semester have their academic year running from Feb - Feb,
which seems to cause problems.
There doesn't seem to be any allowance for courses which begin in
the second semester, and there is little consistency in the way
they are treated by the various agencies.
Date sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:21:47 -0000
Subject: SLC Courses and term dates database.
From: "Roger Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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> I have been asked to go to a meeting on Thursday at the DfEE to
> discuss possible improvements to the collection and input of course
> data by HEIs into the HEI Database of courses and term dates.
>
> Would anyone who has any views or suggestions please let me have them
> by lunchtime on Wednesday.
>
> As far as I can see, the process went much more smoothly in winter
> 1999/2000 than it did the year before. I hope we can be allowed more
> lead time. I will go through the instructions again to see where they
> can be improved; but I am rather too close to the design of the
> process (ie I think I understand it) so I am not as critical of the
> instructions as I would be if I simply received them cold.
>
> I am also pursing (on a more extended agenda) the issue of whether it
> actually matters if a student is doing say French, or French with
> German. But any resolution of this will probably not effect the
> collection of course and term date details, because LEAs will need to
> know these to calculate how much a student is to be lent.
>
> Roger Clark
> Academic Registrar
> University of Reading
>
>
Ian O'D
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